Curb Your Enthusiasm v Arrested Development

teddy_303

Curb, no contest. Best thing comedy I have ever seen. Never predictable, expertly written. It's on TG4 tonight too...:pac:

amacachi

Just voted there for AD, seems to have made it 38 each. What an indecisive bunch.

"As you may or may not know, Lindsay and I have hit a bit of a rough patch."
"Really? When did that start?"
"Well I don't want to blame it all on 9/11 but..."

Voted for AD. Never really got into Curb, but have come close to tears with laughter while watching AD. Gob is, by far, the greatest character ever.

eire1

Arrested Development! It's as Ann as a nose on plain's face.

fruvai

Curb, but both are great.

Wreck

Two of the greatest shows of all time, love them both (almost equally), cancellation of Arrested Development was one of the greatest crimes in the history of TV. Curb just shades it for me, but it's really close.

Morlar

Arrested development by a mile. CYE is a neurotic piece of ****.

RE*AC*TOR

Arrested Development wins here for me. I don't think there has been a better tv comedy ever.

As ensemble casts go, it's unbelievable.

While I really enjoy Curb, it can be a little formulaic.
Act1 Larry abuses someone in some moral social injustice
Later on that person turns out to have some great power over Larry.

hinduhamster

Arrested Development definitely!

I've tried to get into CYE twice but I just can't get into it the same way I could with AD. Maybe if it had a magic show and a few segways.......

pab_lowe

Definately arrested development. Blueman group is fantastic.
CYE was a slow burner with me, builds up to a huge laugh which you can see coming a mile off but is still hilarious. Some of it is hide behing the couch stuff a la The office, so I need to be in a frame of mind to watch it. His visit to the masseuse is an unbelieveable show.

zuroph

i just tipped the voting in favour of CYE. pretty good. pretty pretty pretttty good!

SoupyNorman

RE*AC*TOR wrote: »

While I really enjoy Curb, it can be a little formulaic.
Act1 Larry abuses someone in some moral social injustice
Later on that person turns out to have some great power over Larry.

Yes but each of the scenarios are masterfully done.

DeepBlue

zuroph wrote: »

i just tipped the voting in favour of CYE. pretty good. pretty pretty pretttty good!

I wasn't going to vote but now I just had to :pac:.

Gob's too-authentic portrayal of hot cop was spray-your-coffee-out-your-nose funny.

RasTa

Since Curb is pretty pretty much all improv and Arrested is scripted, it has to be Curb for sheer comedic genius.

L31mr0d

Has to be Arrested Development... so many great episodes and infinitely rewatchable due to the sheer number of side splitting scenes in each episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4qOKybOKXs

click4444

it's soooo close

Reginald P. DuM

I prefer Curb, LD is quite the entertainer. I love the Huge Vagina episode;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfHqv8YAA9w

tman

Hmmmm... Tough call
AD just about hedges it for me, just for the higher volume of lols

Larry is an absolute legend though... "Schmohawk!"

Bugg

Curb Your Enthusiasm definitley, have alll the dvds and there's not a single episode I don't like and have re-watched them several times. Best show on television in my opinion. New season starting this weekend:D

**** Huuuugh

mwnger

AD is a good show but it cannot compare to Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Curb is arguably the best written and certainly the most innovative comedy to come out of America in the last few years. The fact that Larry David writes it all by himself gives it the singular vision that all the best comedy has. AD still retains that 'written by committee' feel that afflicts many US sitcoms.

To my knowledge, the mixture of improvised dialogue with tightly written storylines in Curb has never been done before. For anyone who hasn't watched it, its like the twisty, farce-like plots of Fawlty Towers combined with the witty, ad-libbed dialogue of Spinal Tap.

AD has some good gags alright but it kinda cheats with the Ron Howard voice over explaining some of the jokes.

I can't wait for the new series of Curb starting this week in the US. Larry David is a genius.

Shane10

arrested development is good but not a patch on curb your enthuasim IMO.

click4444

OK if I have to pick one it has to be Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Dubhthamlacht

Wouldn't Arrested Development v 30 Rock be a better poll as they are quite similar in terms of type of humour? Curb is just a different type of show. All 3 shows are brilliant.

TarfHead

One advantage that Curb has over Arrested is that Season 7 started last night so there are still new episodes of Curb to look forward to, whereas once you wacthed all of Arrested, that's just it .

And having just watched the season 7 opener, Curb still has heat, has yet to resort to getting Henry Winkler to relate Shark gags.

JP Liz

Arrested Development

Penn

Bob Loblaw: You don't need double talk! You need Bob Loblaw!

Gob: [arms crossed] Then there's me. The joker. The goofball. The magician.
[quickly makes a magician's gesture with his hands]
Michael: I thought you were gonna do a little fireball there.
Gob: I was. It didn't go off.

Tobias Fünke: Okay, Lindsay, are you forgetting that I was a professional twice over - an analyst and a therapist. The world's first analrapist.


Funniest show ever

dario28

click4444 wrote: »

Curb Your Enthusiasm v Arrested Development
Two of the funniest TV shows I love due back on TV soon can you choose one I cant.

Is Arrested Development back ? Season or movie ?

I am also a never nude !!classic

Penn

dario28 wrote: »

Is Arrested Development back ? Season or movie ?

I am also a never nude !!classic

Movie is being planned, but it could be a while. I don't even think the script is fully finished yet

murrayp4

Note to self: Watch AD again

whatawaster

Curb is one of the best shows on TV.
But Arrested Development is one of the best shows of all time. It and The Office are hands down the shows of the last 10 years.
AD has one of the best characters ever in GOB ("T" isn't far behind). Jason Bateman is just so lovely and Michael Cera is as good a comedy actor as you'll ever find.
The storyline is so complex and never gets old. It has every kind of humour from surreal to deadpan to slapstick.